Hi List,

IEEE P1363 E-MOTION 2002-3 was passed: 5 YES, 1 NO, 1 ABSTAIN.
The voters were: Mike Brenner, Daniel Brown, David Jablon, Burt
Kaliski, David Kravitz, Ari Singer, William Whyte. Details of
the motion are appended below.

At the working group meeting, we'll consider whether or not to
add additional point compression methods to the standard.

Cheers,

William

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IEEE P1363 E-MOTION 2002-3: The IEEE P1363 working group approves the
following changes to P1363a:

* In DL/ECIES, rather than calling the EC2OSP primitive directly, call a
"specified point representation method", where the method is a parameter of
the scheme. EC2OSP would be mentioned as one example, but not required.

* Move EC2OSP back to the informative Annex E (i.e., reverse the previous
changes that moved EC2OSP to Clause 5).

This motion does not require a new point compression method to be added to
P1363a. It is anticipated that such a decision will be addressed by a
separate vote or votes.

The editor may implement this resolution subject to comment by the working
group and  verification by the chair, but without further vote. The chair is
authorized to prepare a response to the ballot comment on point compression
methods accordingly.

Proposed: Burt Kaliski
Seconded: Ari Singer

E-voting opens: Friday, August 9, 2002, 12:00 am EST
E-voting closes: Monday, August 19th, 2002, 12:00 am EST (= 9 am Crypto
time!)

Eligible e-voters: Dan Bailey, Mike Brenner, Daniel Brown, Wei Dai, 
David Jablon, Don Johnson, Burt Kaliski, David Kravitz, Pil Joong Lee, 
Ari Singer, Jerry Solinas, David Stern, William Whyte (13)

A minimum of 7 votes is required for quorum with at least 2/3 YES
among YES/NO votes required for the motion to pass. Individual
votes will be distributed among the e-voters for verification, but
only the total count will be recorded in the working group's records.

Cheers,

William